Contenting Poems

Crazy NaughtiMess

...Crazy
that you can listen
to glistening gospel ministers
missing Messiah's GoodNews non-sinister
transNazarene re-sistering
whole Earth uniting salvation

Crazy
Jewish lay teacher
and EarthN...

Unholy Ruminations

...The opposite of life
is death

The polar opposite of eternal health
is terminal disease,
with unease perhaps lying/truthing
in-between timelessness
and untimely demise

So too,
my opposite ...

Brilliant Resilience

...Singing with outside 
transcendent
ego-theistic
wealthy resonant voice
while dancing inside 
Eartheistic
healthy resilient choice

RePresents ancient sacred reconnections
of messianic verbal...

Wounding World

...I've seen Earth's epitaph:
S/He did more than Her share
to heal a broken world

Which sometimes seems to invoke anger
because I can touch what's broken
and other times provoke merely sad
becau...

Another Storm

...Another storm threatens to come in,
feeling my responsibility
for uncaring
and unresponsive history

Fearing you
more than loving us

Setting out your pails
and plastic tubs
to catch cold
...

A Year Ago

...About a year ago,
as the COVID pandemic
seemed to subside,
then swell,
happily ebb
and yet impatiently flow

Again,
about a year ago
I was noticing cold autumn nights
bringing first frost
...

Love Life

...As I look and listen,
human lives explore individual purposes,
like making breakfast,
as divine love engages co-relational meaning,
like preparing nurturing gifts
of sacred EarthTribal communion...

Why Systems Comfort

...What do healthy systems,
naturally spirited,
ecologically enlightened
and ego-politically empowered swell

Wellness
anthro-economic networks
wonder,
often wander around
what do wealthy mindb...

More Or Less

...The mind in constant change for more,
to have or not and what to adore.
Matters of love promulgating those needs,
misconceptions attaching seeds.
Contenting with natures faithful fruit,
to honor...

Badboy Monotheists

...Where do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?

George Lakoff speaks o...

Climate Evolutions

...First,
competing dominant patriarchs
become filled with climate toxic fear
about long-suffered win/lose evolutions
presuming Earth's great revolutionary Rapture.

Second,
hopeful matriarchs to...

Adopting Adaptive Integrity

...I could change my mind
about adopting you
no more than change my heart's content
about what is healthy
and what is diseased absence of integrity
and what lies somewhat uneasily in-between
withi...

Lead With a Follower

...Most effective teachers
are perpetually curious students.

Most accomplished chefs
have voracious appetites
for nutritional taste
and nurturing fragrance.

Most resilient lovers of here and n...

Doublebinding Riddles

...When is physical restraint equipment
also dirty laundry?

When your daughter vomits
all over her school bus transport harness,

When she could have more safely,
and less expensively, traveled
...

Sacramental Dialogue

...Let's do a bit of sacramental gaming.

Oh no, Dear!
That smells and sounds coldly inappropriate.
What would your great-grandmother say?

OK, well...
how about a mutually refining discussion
a...

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